Rashid Bashir, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Rashid Bashir

Pakistani engineer

Date of Birth: 14-Aug-1967

Place of Birth: Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan

Profession: engineer

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Leo


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About Rashid Bashir

  • Rashid Bashir is Dean of The Grainger College of Engineering, Grainger Distinguished Chair in Engineering and Professor of Bioengineering, at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
  • He was the Executive Associate Dean and Chief Diversity Officer at the Carle-Illinois College of Medicine (07/2017 – 12/2018) at UIUC.
  • Previously, he was the Abel Bliss Professor of Engineering, Head of Department of Bioengineering (07/2013 – 06/2017), Director of the Micro and Nanotechnology Laboratory (a campus-wide clean room research facility) (10/2007 – 06/2013), and Co-Director of the campus-wide Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology (10/2010 – 06/2013), a "collaboratory" aimed at facilitating center grants and large initiatives around campus in the area of nanotechnology.
  • Prior to joining UIUC, he was at Purdue University from 1998–2007 with faculty appointments in Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Bioengineering.
  • From 1992 to 1998 he worked at National Semiconductor Corporation in Santa Clara, CA as Sr.
  • Engineering Manager.
  • He graduated with a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University in 1992.
  • He has authored or co-authored over 240 journal papers, over 200 conference papers and conference abstracts, and over 120 invited talks, and has been granted 50 patents.
  • He is an NSF Faculty Early Career Award winner and the 2012 IEEE EMBS Technical Achievement Award.
  • He received the Pritzker Lecture Award from BMES in 2018.
  • He is a fellow of IEEE, AIMBE, AAAS, BMES, RSC, APS, and NAI.
  • His research interests include bionanotechnology, BioMEMS, lab on a chip, interfacing of biology and engineering from the molecular to the tissue scale, and applications of semiconductor fabrication to biomedical engineering, all applied to solving biomedical problems such as cancer and infectious disease diagnostics.
  • He has been involved in 3 startups that have licensed his technologies, most recently Prenosis, Inc.He was part of the founding team that led the conception of and was co-chair of the curriculum committee for the Carle Illinois College of Medicine, the world’s first engineering based College of Medicine at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Campaign.
  • In addition to leading his own research group, he was the PI on an NSF IGERT on Cellular and Molecular Mechanics and Bionanotechnology and was PI on an NIH Training Grant on Cancer Nanotechnology.
  • He is co-PI on a recently funded National Research Traineeship (NRT) from NSF.
  • He is also Associate Director and UIUC lead on an NSF Science and Technology Center on Emergent Behavior of Integrated Cellular Systems (with MIT, GT, and other partners).

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